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Running license plate thread

I hate Pennsylvania's and California's since they dumped "Keystone State" and "The Golden State" for the friend in Pennsylvania nonsense and a California DMV website ad.

The "You've Got a Friend in Pennsylvania" thing ended when I was a kid in the '80s. PA's plates are as milquetoast as anyone's these days.

New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" plates are the gold standard, if you ask me.
 
I'm just thankful in CA we get reissues of the clashic oldie from my youth (I've got a couple of personalized with Say Hey's Number too)

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Oregon has its specialty "Pacific Wonderland" plates, plain gold/yellow on blue. They should be the standard plate. But you can't get a vanity plate; the lady told me "that wasn't available in 1968 so we can't do it." Hmm. Had I bought one, it would not have been at 1968 prices.

Virginia has some gold specialty plate with "Don't tread on me" on it. I call them Trumper plates.
 
When I was a kid, we used to play hit each other got out of town plates. You could spot Oregon, Washington and Arizona miles away. We eventually had to ban the immediate border states and Washington because they were so ubiquitous in California.
 
People should have to explain their vanity plates. I cannot stand being behind a car with "DABER"and not knowing what it means.

Back in the '80s I'd see a guy fairly regularly in rush hour traffic on I-10 in Houston. He had a vanity tag that read "SWMMS". Bugged the hell out of me. I was behind him one day and got close and he had added a custom frame around his tag. It read "Skinny Women Make Me Sweat".
 
Here's one you won't see often.

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My father in law had one of these. He was stationed in Hiroshima immediately after WWII as a young Marine corporal.
 
When I was collecting plates, this was my Holy Grail. Never got one, though. I remember seeing them as a kid in the late 80s and thought they were gorgeous.

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